Currently in Rome,Italy; presenting at the first netcase at the Museum La Sapienza on December 19, 2006. Info below:

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netcase #1 Eduardo Navas Net(work) Art: Criticizing, producing and curating

Spanish and Italian below

Eduardo Navas is a critical theorist and artist currently based in Los Angeles/San Diego. During his lecture at MLAC Navas will present some of his art, theory and criticism focused on culture and media at large. The lecture will also focus on Navas's recent research on Remix as a cultural activity affecting curatorial practice; he will present examples of New Media projects that challenge the way curators approach contemporary art.


..:: netcase ::..

netcase is not just a space for exposition, not just a space for networking
as artefact, but also a space for questioning and discussing networking as
critical practice: networks as spaces of production. netcase proposes
curating as a practice invested in understanding new media and methods of
production.
netcase is a project by MLAC – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of
"La Sapienza" University of Rome, a museum and laboratory exploring new
forms of cotemporary art practice. netcase at the MLAC is an editorial and
multimedia curatorial project that embraces and oversees new technologies as
its focus.
netcase is curated by lucrezia cippitelli and domenico scudero

netcase no es solamente un espacio para exposiciones o para el networking
como obra de arte, sino también un espacio para cuestionar y discutir el
networking como practica critica: networks como espacios de producción.
netcase propone la curadoria como practica enfocada en entender los nuevos
medios y sus metodos de producción.
netcase es un proyecto del MLAC – Museo Laboratorio de Arte Contemporanea de
la Universidad "La Sapienza" de Roma, un museo y laboratorio que explora las
nuevas formas de la practica del arte contemporaneo.
netcase en el MLAC es un proyecto curatorial, editorial y multimedial que
abraza y investiga las nuevas tecnologias.
netcase es un proyecto de lucrezia cippitelli y domenico scudero

netcase non è solo uno spazio per esposizioni o per il networking inteso
come opera d'arte, ma piuttosto uno spazio in cui indagare e ridiscutere il
networking come pratica critica: i network come spazi di produzione. netcase
propone la curatoria come pratica dedicata alla comprensione dei nuovi media
e metodi di produzione.
netgcase è un progetto del MLAC – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea
dell'Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, un mudeo e laboratorio volto ad
esplorare nuove forme di pratiche artistiche contemporanee.
netcase è uno spazio editoriale e multimediale che vuole mettere a fuoco ed
esplorare le nuove tecnologie.
netcase è un progetto curato da lucrezia cippitelli e domenico scudero

www.mlac.it/netcase
netcase at mlac.it

I was recently invited by a minima, a print magazine focusing on art, technology and new media, to write a brief reflection on selected writings from their past issues. I share the honor with Pablo de Soto, Raquel Herrera and Raquel Renno; three artists and critics who also share their reflections on the magazine. The text are part of the NOW exhibition currently taking place at the CCCB, in Barcelona, Spain.

Official info in English:
NOW is a working platform that will take place at the CCCB from 2006 to 2009. The project reflects on the present on the basis of the scientific, technological, artistic, social and spiritual transformations taking place at the start of the 21st century ? because today it is no longer possible to explain art and culture without interiorizing scientific concepts and working with a systemic view of the world.

NOW is a process of research, creation and diffusion bringing together different local and international agents involved in promoting a change of paradigm in the information and knowledge society and in globalized cultures

a minima:
http://www.aminima.net/
NOW:
http://www.cccb.org/now/ang/index.htm
http://www.cccb.org/now/cat/index.htm
http://www.cccb.org/now/cast/index.htm
http://www.cccb.org/now/ang/index.htm

Spanish info on a minima's contribution:

Pablo de Soto, Raquel Herrera, Eduardo Navas y Raquel Renno seleccionan rutas de lectura para a minima::

a minima:: es un proyecto que pretende dar visibilidad a trabajos de artistas e investigadores interesados en la implicacion de la ciencia y de la tecnologia en la cultura y el arte. Desde 2003 ha generado un archivo documental y ha establecido una red de trabajo entre diferentes colaboradores. El proyecto se concreta en forma de publicacion impresa editada bimestralmente en formato libro.

La muestra propuesta para NOW se basa en una seleccion de articulos realizada por cuatro artistas y teoricos vinculados a la publicacion.

Cada uno de ellos propone un recorrido de lectura, una ruta sencilla de navegacion a traves de textos publicados en a minima.

A summary of my 5 day Remix seminar which took place at Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (CCEBA) has been published (Spanish only).

A big thanks to Gabriela Perez del Pulgar for taking, summarizing and revising the notes for publication. A very special thanks to Belen Gache and Gustavo Romano who organized the seminar.

You may access the summary here:
http://cceba.org.ar/evento/
taller.pl?id=3

General seminar information :
http://www.cceba.org.ar/evento/
evento.pl?evento=363

The exhibition Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA opens at the San Diego Museum of Art.

I was part of the UCSD VisArts Research Group who assisted Roberto Tejada in curating the exhibition.

A recognition goes to my fellow researchers: Katherine Becvar, Fabian Cereijido, Moriah Evans,Nicole Holland, William Huber, Bill Kelley, Jr., Rebecca J. Kinney, Carlos Martell, Annie Mendoza, Patricia Montoya, Irene Robles-Huerta, and Yagna Yass. A special thanks to Monica Jovanovich and Jillian Mollenhauer for their special curatorial assistance this summer, making the final exhibition possible.

http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-paper-traces.html
Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA
September 23-December 31, 2006

A new exhibition curated by the UCSD VisArts Research Group reveals the depth and breadth of the Museum's Latin American collection. With approximately 60 prints and drawings of varying media and sizes—nearly all on view for the first time—Paper Traces boasts examples by major artists from all over Latin America, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, José Luis Cuevas, and Antonio M. Frasconi. It also highlights SDMA's new acquisitions, such as Hugo Crosthwaite's Bartolomé and Leonora Carrington's High Priestess.

The prints, drawings, posters, and portfolios displayed range widely over time and place and include art from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, and Venezuela. They present subject matter common to everyday life in Latin America—national identity, labor, ethnicity, social class, and family—and explore the role of traditional media in depicting these themes.

My project Diary of a Star is currently part of an online exhibition focused on Blogs, organized by no-org.net:

http://www.no-org.net/blogs/

Blog, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog one of the most spread forms of expression on the web -varying from personal diaries to community weblogs, professional knowledge exchange resources, political campaigns and more. In their different manifestations, blogs (moblogs, videoblogs, photoblogs, etc.), became a phenomenon influencing in many cases upon social and cultural areas: journalism, politics, alternative knowledge sources, literature, art, etc.

The *blogs?* project takes blog as art and as a stage for net artworks investigating the language, the aesthetics, the impacts and the practices of blogs, blogging and the blogoesphere.

Blog? presents works utilizing the blog platform for creation of artwork. Works that break the conventional purpose of the platform, conveying a message or delivering data, by emphasizing poetical and aesthetic manifestations of blog, and by exposing capabilities of the blog as a platform for creating art. Blog-specific works.

I'm back in Los Angeles and San Diego, and just received a link to my radio interview in Conexion Social, which took place in Santiago de Chile.

The interview was in Spanish:
http://www.conexionsocial.cl/node/33

El arte nos ayuda a familiarizarnos y a captar algo de nuestra nueva era digital. Necesitamos apropiarnos de lo digital, de lo cientifico y tecnologico en nuestra cultura. (Herve Fisher, filosofo y artista)

Eduardo Navas, historiador, escritor y net artist salvadoreno especializado en nuevos medios, converso con Conexion Social sobre las nuevas relaciones entre arte y nuevas tecnologias, especialmente a traves de la plataforma que ofrece la web, donde la comunidad cobra especial importancia en la valoracion de la propuesta de una obra artística, y tambien a la hora de crear algo. Bienvenidos a la cultura del remix, a los espacios donde crear algo nuevo, se menzcla con el copiar, cortar, pegar y poner a disposicion de otros en la red. Una apuesta que concibe al trabajo artístico como un regalo libre de ser compartido y apreciado por tod@s.

Currently in Santiago de Chile, presenting on Remix Culture at the Conference, Updating Art and Technology, organized by Troyano Collective:

A series of conferences that will aboard the limits between art and technology from the last expiriencies made by artists. The event is divided in two phases;


-From 6 pm in the Centre Cultural of Spain of Santiago, Chile, during the days 17, 18 and 19 of August, will be broadcasted online to Espacio H located in the city of Cordoba, Argentine. These actvities will be part of the 8th Digital Days Works from Cordoba, Argentine. 2006


-Since the days 24th, 25th y 26th of August in the School of Arts in the city of Valparaiso, will be transimitted the 8th Digital Days Works from Cordoba, Argentina.

PROGRAM
Cultural
Centre of Spain of Santiago, Chile
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17 of August / 18 - 21 hrs.
-Igor Stromajer (sl) Mobil Technology: Wpack.
-Marina Zerbarini (ar) Bio Arte: Heat, Vapor
Humidity. Turner in the
XXI cent.
-Enrique Rivera (cl) Technology and Politics:
Cybernetic Synergy,Basis
and Convergence betweenen Art + Science+ Technology
in Chile

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18 of August / 18 - 21 hrs.
-Dmitry Bulatov (ru) Bio Art: Third Modenization:
Works of Techno-
Biological Art Works -
-José Miguel Tagle (cl) Bio Art: The Brain of the
Chaman.
Neurobiological Rersearch and Bioelectronic
Instalations.
-Mirko Petrovich (cl) Technology and Politics:
Gesture Control in the
Audiovisual Interactive Systems.
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19 of August / 18 - 21 hrs.
-Angellique Waller (us) Technology and Politics:
Ebay Longing
-Eduardo Navas (sa-us) Technology and Politics: The
Culture of
Remix. The influence of the Break in DJ Culture and the Ideology of Repetition.
-Marc Tutters (ca) : Beyond the
Locative Medias

>more information
www.t-r-o-y-a-n-o.cl

Presenting at Taller H, Arte and Comunicacion, Cordoba, Argentina.

jueves 10 de agosto 2006 | 20 hs .
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Eduardo Navas*


charla y dialogo sobre
culturaremix


invita
arte & comunicacion
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www.tallerh.com.ar
humberto primo 756 - cordoba -arg
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Eduardo Navas De paso por Cordoba, ofrecera una charla introductoria al tema de su presentacion en Santiago de Chile, en el marco de "Actualizando Arte y Tecnología" Ciclo de conferencias sobre Bio Arte, Tecnología y Política y Dispositivos Móviles, que recibiremos en Taller h en simultaneo del 17 al 19 de agosto proximos, como actividad previa a las Octavas Jornadas de arte y medios digitales
| http://www.liminar.com.ar/jornadas/chile.htm |

Currently in the advisory panel for perthDAC 2007, in Australia.

The submission date for 500 word abstracts for perthDAC 2007 is only a couple of weeks away (28th August). Full details at:
http://www.beap.org/dac/

Conference dates 15 - 18th September 2007

Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) is the leading cross-disciplinary scholarly/research conference series for the analysis of developments in the broad field of digital media, expression and communication.

In September 2007, DAC will be hosted as the key international conference in the public program of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) in Perth, Australia.

BEAP celebrates and critiques new and novel technologies (digital, bio, nano, other) by showcasing artworks made with, or are about, new technologies. perthDAC's conference program will be closely inter-woven with BEAP's exhibitions.

perthDAC's academic programme is being developed with the close co-operation and support of the fibreculture forum, who will also be active on the perthDAC conference steering committee.


Theme

The Future of Digital Media Culture
In the early 1990s, the very term digital was new and novel. However, it has taken only fifteen years for e-mail, the Internet, mobile phones, the power of searchable databases, games, film and TV special effects and workplace software tools to become a common and essential part of modern life. Research has not only described the arrival of these new forms, but is increasingly addressing the unexpected social and cultural uses of digital communications and virtual work/play environments.

In the same historically brief time, popular attention has turned to the potentials and problems of the newer new technologies, bio and nano. In addition, the global phenomenon of terrorism, super-epidemics and climate change have developed from distant concerns to everyday realities. Thus the context for digitally mediated processes is also very different.

perthDAC 2007 will explore the complex interaction of human behaviour and new technologies that will be The Future of Digital Media Culture.

Back in Buenos Aires.
Lecturing at Telefonica Cultural Center on Saturday August 5.
http://www.fundacion.
telefonica.com.ar/espacio/

Currently in Montevideo, Uruguay, attending the Soundtoys events organized by Brian Mackern.

PLATAFORMA SOUNDTOYS // INTERFACES SONOROVISUALES
Edicion II - Julio 2006
Montevideo, Uruguay

http://34s56w.org/soundtoys2006/

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Dentro del lanzamiento del entorno/plataforma "soundtoys/interfaces sonorovisuales 2006", se presentara un ciclo de conciertos en el Centro Cultural de Espana --Montevideo y en la Alliance Francaise de Montevideo. Este evento contara tambien con conferencias a cargo de los artistas participantes y muestra de sus obras en el marco del fac / 05982:01, organizado por la Fundacion de Arte Contemporáneo.

Artistas:
Julia Masvernat (Argentina)
Szkieve (Belgica-Canada)
Cooptrol (Uruguay)
Brian Mackern (Uruguay)

Organiza:
34s56w.org http://34s56w.org

Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I will be presenting and discussing new media projects at CCEBA (Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires) from the 17 to the 21 of July:
http://www.cceba.org.ar/evento/
evento.pl?evento=363
http://www.cceba.org.ar/
tapa/tapa.pl

Excerpt in Spanish:
La investigacion de Navas como artista y teorico se enfoca en el fenomeno de "Remix Culture," o Cultura Remix, la cual se ha popularizado globalmente debido a las posibilidades que ofrece Internet. La definicion general de la cultura remix esta ligada a la estetica de "copy/cut & paste" comun en los nuevos medios gracias a las computadoras. Hoy, la idea del remixar (del tomar segmentos de material pre-existente para combinarlo en nuevas formas de acuerdo al gusto del individuo) ha sido extendida a otras areas de la cultura, incluyendo las bellas artes, al mismo tiempo que juega un papel vital en la comunicacion masiva.

Currently in Amsterdam:

Eduardo Navas gives presentation at the Waag in Amsterdam, 29 June 2006, 4.00 PM

On Thursday 29 th of June at 4 PM Eduardo Navas of the University of San Diego will give a lecture at the Waag building in Amsterdam about the subject of his Ph.D, remix culture.
Generally, remix culture is referenced as the global activity made possible by digital technologies largely supported by the cut/copy and paste aesthetic made popular as computers became part of everyday life. Today, the concept of remixing (of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms according to one’s taste) has been extended to other areas of culture, including the Visual Arts; and plays a vital role in mass communication. The notion of the remix often referenced in popular culture is actually dependent on the model of music remixes which started to be produced around the 60s in New York City.

Navas is currently developing an in-depth theory of remix culture; and in order to have a greater understanding of it, He is also developing performances that explore the creative and critical potential of remix as a tool as well as a medium.
Navas will be introduced by Sher Doruff.

Where: Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag building, Nieuwmarkt 4 1012CR, Amsterdam
When: 29 June 2006, 4.00 PM
Stream: http://connect.waag.org



Eduardo Navas
Ph.D. Candidate
Art & Media History, Theory and Criticism,
University of California San Diego

Currently in Berlin. Doing a brief presentation of my work at Berliner Technische Kunstschule (BTK) on June 21, 2006

http://www.htk-berlin.de/index.html

Traveling to Buenos Aires in July to interview artists and do a workshop at CCEBA:

http://www.cceba.org.ar/evento/
evento.pl?evento=363
http://www.cceba.org.ar/
tapa/tapa.pl

Lunes 17 de Julio, 10 Hs.
EDUARDO NAVAS. NET ART. Presentacion de trabajos recientes y análisis de obra

Medialab / Encuentro con cupo limitado e inscripcion hasta el 10 de julio de 2006.

Dirigido a artistas con produccion en el campo de los medios electronicos.
Enviar datos personales, un breve curriculum vitae y segun el caso, imágenes o links a sus trabajos a inscripcion@cceba.org.ar.
Esta actividad forma parte del programa de ayuda CCEBA 2006 para la realizacion de proyectos net art/medios digitales.

I'm currently a juror for the Rhizome 2006-07 commissions:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

+ Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2006 +

Rhizome is pleased to announce that with support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, between eight and eleven new Internet art projects will be commissioned in 2006.

The fee for each commission will range from $900 – $3,000.

Artists are invited to submit proposals for new works of Internet-based art. There is no required theme. The works can manifest offline, as long as the Internet is a primary vehicle in the creation of the work, and the final work is accessible online, whether through a web browser, software, or some other use of internet technologies.

When evaluating proposals, the jury will consider artistic merit, technical feasibility, and online accessibility. Although we will provide some technical assistance with final integration into the Rhizome web site, artists are expected to develop projects independently and without significant technical assistance from Rhizome.

Read more on how to submit a proposal

Critical analysis of "The Quixote" by George L. Dillon in "Anti-Laokoon: Mixed and Merged Modes of Imagetext on the Web" (in Writer's Craft: Culture's Technology, Ed.: Carmen Caldas-Coulthard and Michael Toolan, Rodopi.) See table of contents here.

Excerpt: One site that manages to have a lot of text and pieces of text with images both ways is Eduardo Navas' "The Quixote." This edition of Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" wants to display two languages (those of translation and original) and to use sentences as panels superposed over a book image. The site divides the story into a series of such pages. On all of them, the flow of text is interrupted at the sentence and the visual integrity of the text is reduced by making the "pages" transparent (and the type very large). However, Navas also presents the connected text (albeit alternating Spanish and English translation) in a pop-up window that can be positioned and scrolled and is in a sense outside the design frame (though depicted here in the lower lefthand corner of the main window).

Read the entire essay

Recent commentary on Diary of a Star at La Magia della Scrittura

Eduardo Navas, Il Diario di una stella

Uno dei capolavori di Eduardo Navas, famoso artista dei nuovi media, e "Il Diario di una stella". In questo progetto (che può essere visualizzato nella pagina www.navasse.net/star) Navas seleziona parti del Diario di Andy Warhol e le presenta in forma di blog. Anzi, di due: in quello di destra l'artista trascrive le pagine del diario di Warhol così come sono state pubblicate (blog diary); quello di sinistra invece raccoglie le riflessioni di Navas. L'artista infatti non si e dedicato alla sola lettura del diario, bensì è entrato in relazione con esso: ha iniziato così un viaggio virtuale nella rete e, attraversando una serie infinita di link, ha raggiunto i luoghi e delle persone menzionate da Warhol.

Read the entire comment at La Magia della Scrittura

My Article "Reflections on Conceptual Art and its relation to New Media, a month long conversation at Empyre" is published on noemalab (Italy):

Excerpt:
With this assimilation of criticism in mind, what actually happens with the shift from object to information is that the artist -- in particular the new media artist -- can develop work using a materialist approach following the parameters of conceptualism while not worrying about objecthood -- as theorized by Michael Fried [12] -- and this may be why some people confuse new media practice following a materialist analysis with Conceptualism as understood with the likes of Michael Asher or (to show the complexity of Conceptual art) Adriane Piper. However, the basic criticism that made conceptualism a specific movement of resistance is no longer there; meaning, the object of art is no longer expected to be present, or critiqued in order to call something art, in the realm of new media. This type of criticism itself is institutionalized; it is part of what today is known as "Institutional Critique." This does not mean that there is no such thing as a conceptual online practice that of critiquing the object of art or the institution, only that the criticism of such practice is quite different because the object of art is information (data) that can be presented in various forms. And the resistance of the object based on its co-option by a commercial market is conveniently supported by the rise of the gift economy. [13]

Read the entire article here:
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/
ideas/ideas_articles/navas_
conceptual_art.html

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